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- Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:23 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
If I tell a person quite clearly I reject that framing and they continue to insist on using it. Sashi's continued insistence on likening the relationship to a parent and child confirms over and over again that this is how they see it as well. No I am not insisting on using it nor have I ever said t...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 4:33 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
We are not allies! You have made it very clear that you consider me a political tool who is currently useful to you because you believe joining a union would improve your material condition and I support unions. You are a ladder puller who would happily throw me under the bus for the slightest benef...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:31 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Sashi I explained my framing of the government in detail. Asking me a question about my position on parenting in a conversation about government is irrelevant. Especially because I don't buy into your likening the government to a parent in the first place. So until you shape that question in a way ...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 9:42 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
I don't know why you're asking me another random question about this framing you continue wanting to use after I explicitly said I reject it. I'm asking because I want to know your framing and I am genuinely worried about why you deflected this question with increasingly incoherent rambling. This e...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 6:24 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
I don't know why you're asking me another random question about this framing you continue wanting to use after I explicitly said I reject it. This isn't a random question, it's a very important one and the answer should be very easy, so easy that I am actively concerned you refuse to answer it. Is ...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:52 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Basically the rest can be summed to by the fact that none of these are actually tantamount to dealing with a parent and I really don't know why you'd want it to be our why you've decided this is going to be how you plant your flag. On this hill. On this tangent. You're welcome to idealize governmen...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:16 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Edit: oh yes I forgot the question was answered favorably for my argument but I should address it myself anyway. For the purposes of this conversation it really didn't matter if I split that question into two or three. The only reason I listed a bad thing at all instead of nothing v something was b...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:09 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Instead I will say I heavily disagree with that interpretation of a citizen's position to the government. I find it so bewildering that you actually, factually, buy into that way of seeing the government that I dismissed the idea without consideration that it is a thing you believe. The government ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
PS did an excellent job addressing the specific "Is Biden showing up to the strike better than a poke in the eye?" question. I do think it's childish that in the game of politics where everyone is acting in their own interest that you can assume any act of any actor that isn't in power is ...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:37 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
The union gave Biden credit. It's in the article. Even if the union that credited Biden was the larger railworker's union that wouldn't matter. Your own post shows why it doesn't matter: Playing politics means dealing with people who most of time do not care about you or your cause, and at worse ag...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 12:30 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10032
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
The Stop Cop City folks have built organizations that are capable of exercising power, and they have allies who are also capable of exercising power. Their opponents are several organizations that are also capable of exercising power, and those organizations also have allies who can exercise power....
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 1:36 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10032
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
Cops are actually scared of getting hurt and dying, they aren't a bunch of berserkers who want to get juiced up and crack the skulls of people who are fighting back. They only want to get juiced up and crack the skulls of unarmed, passively-resisting people. If you'd like evidence for this I'd poin...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 11:41 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10032
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
When you criminalize the "right" way to support a movement like Defend the Atlanta Forest or Stop Cop City you will likely see a reduction in the number of people participating in the movement in the "right" way, but you'll also likely see an uptick in people wrecking your shit....
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:28 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10032
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
The police are really gambling on this. If you make donating to bail funds punishable in the same way burning a cop car is punishable you're going to see a lot more burned cop cars. Really not much of a gamble. A significant fraction of the country believe the purpose of the law is to enforce socia...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 8:14 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10032
Re: Illinois Safe-T Act (The Purge Law)
It is in the interests of the millionaires that you forget it. That way they can continue to pretend the solution is fewer bigots instead of changing incentives.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:59 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
- Replies: 942
- Views: 886677
Re: The Biden Administration (No Lago)
Isn't that a thesis of the Shock Doctrine? Never let a humanitarian crisis go to waste.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 1:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 972394
Re: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
Yeah, their backstory and life cycle and demographics seem a mess. Honest question: what makes them such a mess? Lost, contradictory, and secret histories are a great way to give room to incorporate them into multiple settings (and also to preserve mystery even after players read the monster manual...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 6:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 127
- Views: 88660
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
D&D style fire elementals just require a completely different set of (meta)physics than real life, which is fine because we can also have shadow, force, and fear elementals. It's definitely most important for elementals to have abilities that are evocative of their substance than to simply be im...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D Movie
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14336
Re: D&D Movie
Finally watched this on streaming. Definitely agree it was nice to watch a D&D movie that was both good and didn't feel the need to explain or apologize that it was D&D. I also found it interesting what they left out. Weirdest thing is clerics and divine/healing magic. I know Forgotten Realm...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:36 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 127
- Views: 88660
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
Rather than where you currently draw it. That makes werewolves and silver weapons interactions into wrong bad impossibility. ... I also like that it brings up silver bullets. A thing which in it's literal implementation, you are arguing against. Because again. EXACTLY your claims apply to silver an...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 7:58 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Blue light penetrates deeper into the ocean because water slightly absorbs red light, it's a completely different process from the one Stahlseele is discussing, which is about the wavelength of light relative to the material thickness. If the wavelength is much longer than the material thickness the...
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
- Replies: 235
- Views: 14456505
Re: Biden Announces Reelection Campaign
Democrats probably wouldn't like his "become head of empire to help dismantle it" position, but it would be interesting to see how people respond to it. We all know empires are bad, right? The Democrat position is that empires are bad when people who aren't Democrats run them. I've been c...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 7:44 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 127
- Views: 88660
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
I don't know pseudo code so I won't really engage with that much outside of trying to derive what your actual point is. Hey, congrats on being better with pseudocode than a computer scientist. The point of pseudocode is to be understandable, not compilable or to follow a specific syntax. PL snarkin...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 127
- Views: 88660
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
The irony here is that you just made a phenomenally bad faith argument but it doesn't feel that way to you because you obfuscated it through enough willful misinterpretation.
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 4:28 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
- Replies: 127
- Views: 88660
Re: Ignoring things that ignore the ignoring of...
Explain it. Properly. In your words. Sure. Let's use some pseudocode to represent fire immunity: If FireImmune = True and AttackDamageType = Fire Then Damage = 0 So we have a Pyromancer and want to give them the ability to damage fire immune targets. One way would be "Ignore Fire Immunity"...